Seventeen-year-old Carissa Ferrance has been named the first recipient of an academic scholarship named in honor of her father and former national footballer, Eustace “Barba” Ferrance.
The scholarship, was launched in the honor of the late former national footballer, Eustace “Barba” Ferrance by the Georgia Cayman Islands Chapter, a Pares Secondary School alumni group, and will provide recipients with tuition fees and books.
In a ceremony held at the school last week, one alumni said that “The first recipient of this full academic scholarship is a recent graduate of the Pares Secondary School who has excelled academically. She loves the color pink, she loves to play video games, listen to music and spend quality time with family members. I would love to extend heartiest congratulations to Carissa Ferrance.”
The recipient is set to study human resources at Antigua and Barbuda International Institute of Technology (ABIIT) and expressed her joy for obtaining the first scholarship designed to honor her father’s memory.
“It’s overwhelming, but I am glad, to be honest. They have been very good and I am pursuing human resource at the ABIIT because I just feel like it would be a good thing for me because I like working with people,” she said.
She also described her father to be hardworking and consistent. Eustace was best known for his achievements in football with both the Parham Football Club and the senior men’s national team. He passed away late November after a prolonged battle with a suspected case of viral encephalitis or inflammation of the brain caused by a virus.
